Word: cutoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the '60s, the Wall was meant to stop Easterners from heading West, of course, but it also severed the western half of the city from Berlin's rich historical center and deprived West Berliners of access to the East's many parks. What is more, the cutoff of laborers from East Berlin prompted West Berlin to undertake a crash program of apartment building to attract new workers from West Germany and abroad. The main result was slapdash, tired- looking Alphaville architecture, Interbau without airs...
Filling out the picture will be some lesser-known field agents who helped create the private network that kept the contras fighting despite the official cutoff. Among them: Robert Owen, who as North's roving envoy in Central America allegedly arranged weapons shipments, and Contra Leader Adolfo Calero, who will be asked about what help the rebels actually received...
...contras in the jungle watch Congress almost as closely as they do the . Sandinista forces. The rebels are aware that congressional ire over U.S. arms sales to Iran, and the subsequent use of proceeds to supply the contras, could mean another aid cutoff. The guerrillas claim to be undaunted, but the claim does not ring altogether true. Declared Chicle: "If Congress stops our aid, fine. But they can't stop our will to fight. It's stupid to say that that wouldn't hurt us profoundly. However, we will keep fighting...
...providing the contras with detailed information on targets inside Nicaragua, including maps and blueprints of bridges, dams and other facilities built by U.S. agencies in the 1960s and 1970s. Legislators may find such involvement perilously close to the kind of CIA activities that led to a cutoff of congressional funds in 1984, after U.S. agents mined a Nicaraguan harbor...
...President at Camp David. He wheedled support for the contras out of some half a dozen foreign governments and an assortment of private citizens. Despite the CIA's objections, he gave intelligence information to the Iranians. He claimed that he had threatened the President of Costa Rica with the cutoff of U.S. aid if the President disclosed the existence of a covert airstrip. At one point, he even proposed sinking or hijacking a freighter en route to Nicaragua and stealing the weapons on board for the contras...